Packing or shipping box.



E. C. POTTER.

PACKING 0R SHIPPING BOX.

APPLICATION FILED $EPT. 28. 1912.

1,159,338. Patented Nov. 2, 1915.

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EARL C. POTTER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

EACKING OR SHIPPING BOX.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 2, 1315.

Application filed September 28, 1912. Serial No. 722,879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EARL C. POTTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and state of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Packing or Shipping Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to packing or shipping boxes made of paper board, preferably doubled-faced corrugated paper board, and more particularly intended and designed for the packaging and shipment of potted flowers.

The object of my invention is to produce asimple and efficient box of this character of the collapsible or knock-clown type which shall be comparatively simple and inexpensive of manufacture and capable of being readily assembled and manipulated by the user.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a plan view of a blank cut and scored to form the body of the box; Fig. 2 a similar View of one of the inner linings or supports for the box, but on a larger scale; and Fig. 3 a vertical section of an assembled box illustrating a potted flower contained and supported therein, said view being on the same scale as Fig. 2.

Referring to the particular embodiment of my invention as illustrated in the drawings, the box body is formed from the blank shown in Fig. 1, which blank is of any desired dimensions and is preferably made of double-faced corrugated paper board in order to provide the desired strength. This blank consists of a bottom 1, two long side walls 22 hinged thereto along score lines, end walls 38 also hinged to the bottom 1, and in addition the four corner flaps e which are hinged to the end walls 3 but separated from the side walls 2 by means of the slits 5.

It will be understood that as a matter of convenience of description I have referred to the section 1 of the blank as the bottom, although when the box is erected and standing in the position illustrated in Fig. 3 it constitutes one of the side Walls equally with the two similar and opposite walls 2, the fourth wall consisting of a lid or cover (not shown) which may be of any usual construction. In forming the box body the side walls 22 are folded upwardly to a position at right angles to the bottom or wall 1 and the two end walls 3-3, which may also be considered as constituting top or bottom closures as the case may be, are likewise folded upwardly to a position at right angles to the bottom or wall 1, and the four corner flaps 1 are folded to a position inside of the box thus formed and against their adjacent side walls These corner flaps may be retained in position in any suitable manner as by means of the hooks or staples 6 which are pressed into the corrugations in said side walls and flaps.

Within the box body are secured two lining and supporting boards which are similarly made from a blank such as illustrated in Fig. 2. This blank consists of a rectangular sheet of double-faced corrugated paper board with a width equaling that of one of the side walls of the box body, and of a length to extend from one of the free edges of the corner folds at the top of the box to the lower end of such box, including the folding thereof inwardly to wardthe center of the box in a position above the pot of the plant. As shown, this blank is transversely scored so as to form the four sections 7, 8, 9 and 10. The top sections 7 and 10 when in place within the box press against one of the side walls 2 thereof, and are secured thereto in suitable manner as by means of the staples 11, and 11. The next section, 8, is bent so as to diverge inwardly. The next section, 9, is bent or folded to press upon the top of the pot 12. The remaining section 10 bears against the inner surface of one of the corner flaps 4. By preference I interpose between the bottom of the body and the end or bottom closure 3 a square strip of corrugated board 13.

It will be understood that in order to accommodate the different standard sizes or heights of pots employed, the blank shown in Fig. 2 is scored accordingly, but in each instance provision is made for the inward divergence or folding of two sections of such blank in the manner above explained. These inner boards serve not only to strengthen the box body at the two opposite side walls, but also to provide a support and means for holding the pot at one end of the box, thereby preventing the movement of the potted flower and its pot within the box.

The blanks are shipped to the user or consumer in the collapsed condition shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and such user is supplied with the fasteners 6 and s aples 11, together with a suitable tool for cle;::hing the latter. The fasteners (3 are made and used in the manner shown in Ferres Patent No. 869,833,

5 dated October 29th, 1907.

I claim:

1. A packing or shipping box for potted plants comprising a box body and strips arranged inside said body at two opposite sides thereof, said strips each having end portions lying against the inner face of the side walls of the box and each having a pair of intermediate sections folded to form an inwardly projecting abutment, and means 1 for preventing endwise outward movement of the end portions of the strips.

2. A packing or shipping box for potted plants comprising a box body and strips secured to two opposite side walls and each 29 being transversely scored to form sections folded within and against the walls 2, and

two opposite strips each having end portions Copies of this patent may be obtained for five'cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

lying against the inner face of thfltlCljtlCEIifi wall 2 and having a pair of intermediate sections folded to form an inwardly projecting abutment, each end portion at one end of the strip abutting against an end of the adjacent flap 4 at that end of the box, and

means for maintaining the end portions of thestrips in contact with the side walls of the box. r

L. A packing or shipping box comprising three side walls 1, 2, 2, hinged together, one of said walls 1 having end extensions to form end walls 3, and said end walls having on two opposite sides flaps 4 which are folded within and against the Walls 2, and two opposite strips each having end portions lying against the inner face of the adjacent wall 2 and having a pair of intermediate sections folded to form an inwardly projecting abutment, each end portion at one end of the strip abutting against an end of the adjacent flap 4: at that end of the box,

and each end portion at the other end of the strip abutting against the other end of the box, and means for maintalning the end portions of the strips 1n contact with the side walls of the box. 7 7

- EARL C. POTTER. Witnesses:

LOUIS B. ERWIN, ROBERT DOBBERMAN.

Washington, I). C. 

